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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-07 15:48:51 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-07 15:48:51 +0000
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mdoc(7) police:
Avoid using parenthesis enclosure macros (.Pq and .Po/.Pc) with plain text. Not only this slows down the mdoc(7) processing significantly, but it also has an undesired (in this case) effect of disabling hyphenation within the entire enclosed block.
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8 b/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8
index 5c6ca9b..299d6fe 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpidump.8
@@ -48,12 +48,12 @@ command analyzes ACPI tables in physical memory and dumps them to standard outpu
In addition,
.Nm
can disassemble some contents of the tables in AML
-.Pq ACPI Machine Language
+(ACPI Machine Language)
and dump them in ASL
-.Pq ACPI Source Language .
+(ACPI Source Language).
.Pp
ACPI tables have an notably essential data block called DSDT
-.Pq Differentiated System Description Table ,
+(Differentiated System Description Table),
that includes information used on the kernel side such as
detail information about PnP hardware, procedures for controlling
a power management support and so on.
@@ -71,12 +71,12 @@ and dump them. First, it searches Root System Description Pointer,
that has a signature
.Qq RSD PTR\ \& ,
and then gets RSDT
-.Pq Root System Description Table ,
+(Root System Description Table),
which includes a list of pointers to physical memory addresses
for other tables.
RSDT itself and all other tables linked from RSDT are generically
called SDT
-.Pq System Description Table
+(System Description Table)
and their header has the common format which consists of items
such as Signature, Length, Revision, Checksum, OEMID, OEM Table ID,
OEM Revision, Creator ID and Creator Revision.
@@ -88,13 +88,13 @@ see chapter 5: ACPI Software Programming Model,
from Intel/Microsoft/Toshiba.
.Pp
There is always a pointer to a physical memory address in RSDT for FACP
-.Pq Fixed ACPI Description Table .
+(Fixed ACPI Description Table).
FACP defines static system information about power management support
-.Pq ACPI Hardware Register Implementation
+(ACPI Hardware Register Implementation)
such as interrupt mode
-.Pq INT_MODEL ,
+(INT_MODEL),
SCI interrupt number, SMI command port
-.Pq SMI_CMD
+(SMI_CMD)
and location of ACPI registers.
FACP also has a pointer to a physical memory address for DSDT,
which includes information used on the kernel side such as
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ simultaneously on a machine that supports ACPI BIOS.
In the current implementation,
.Nm
doesn't dump any information of Firmware ACPI Control Structure
-.Pq FACS
+(FACS)
specified by a pointer in FACP.
Some parts of output in ASL are incomplete. To obtain a complete
output, it would need to change the implementation into another one
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